Posts I haven’t yet written
Quite a few of my posts begin with ideas that rattle around until research or mulling them over generates enough interest to get me writing. Time for contemplation and research have been in short...
View ArticleNo discouraging words revisited
#188103043 / gettyimages.com In an earlier post, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, I announced an experiment. Following my wife’s efforts to suspend negative thinking and speech during Lent, I...
View ArticleA spring break medley
medley (med-lē) n., 1 a mixture of things not usually placed together; heterogeneous collection; hodgepodge. A quiet week, with many ideas wandering through my mind without quite attaining blog post...
View ArticleI think, therefore
The Thinker, Rodin. Public Domain When I first started to write, in my teens and early 20’s, I was hugely influenced by an eclectic group of American writers that included vocal social critics from the...
View ArticleTerminal Time
The phrase, “Terminal Time” has a dire sound, but as the photo below should make clear, this post is not about terminal illness. It’s about terminal, as in airports; not the end of life, but the end of...
View ArticleEnsuring Your Site is Mobile-Friendly
Morgan Mussell:Useful information from wordpress.com on keeping your blog current with a Google search algorithm change. Originally posted on WordPress.com News: Today, Google released a change to its...
View ArticleCompass and Lamp
I started this blog in June, 2010, after a daylong blogging seminar hosted by the local branch of the California Writer’s Club. I was trying to write a fantasy novel, and popular wisdom at the time...
View ArticleThe Social Dilemma: A Movie Review.
The Social Dilemma, released on Netflix on September 9, is a comprehensive evaluation of the dark side of social media, by some of the senior engineers who designed the underpinnings of these systems:...
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